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Western scene. Woman holds man in cowboy hat at gunpoint in sepia tone photo.
Screenings

Gender Adventures

FRI AUG 19, 7:30 PM

Part of the UCLA Film & Television Archive series Cinema's First Nasty Women. Register at cinema.ucla.edu to attend this in-theater screening.

From the Old West to the (now not so) distant future, women take center stage and drive the action in this program of adventures.

The Red Girl and the Child

U.S., 1910

DCP, b&w, silent, 17 min.

The Girl Spy Before Vicksburg

U.S., 1910

DCP, b&w, silent, 15 min.

A Range Romance

U.S., 1911

DCP, b&w, silent, 13 min.

The Night Rider

U.S. 1920

DCP, b&w, silent, 25 min.

What's the World Coming to?

U.S., 1926

DCP, b&w, silent, 23 min.